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Pesticide Alternatives

Person spraying pesticide in yard
8 Common Pesticide Questions, Answered
On-farm perennial habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects. These fall blooming plants include black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta), purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), and goldenrod (Solidago spp.).
How To Control Garden Pests While Supporting Pollinators
A photo of a flower fly, looking quite like a bee itself, pollinating a Black-Eyed Susan flower.
5 Beneficial Insects for Farms and Gardens
Leaf cutter bees have snipped multiple disc-sized pieces from these pink Clarkia aomena flowers
Nature Notes: Snapshots of the Wildlife in our Gardens
The underside of a leaf with several round growths that are a splotchy red in color.
Are My Plants Okay? How to Respond To Insects and Diseases in Trees and Shrubs
A plastic container of blueberries at a grocery store. The packaging is labeled with the Bee Better Certified seal.
More Retailers Are Requiring Produce to be Certified as Pollinator-Friendly
Hori hori gardening tool removing a weed from a garden
Protect Pollinators at Home: Alternatives to Herbicides
Community campaign to stop mosquito spraying to protect wildlife
These Bee-Safe Communities are Welcoming Back Pollinators
Sweat bee on coneflower in home garden
Tips for Pollinator-Safe Gardening
long-horned bee on cosmo flower
Allies in Conservation: Nurseries Practicing Pollinator-Safe Pest Management
Catchment habitat designed to capture nutrient and sediment runoff, like this flowering prairie strip at Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge in Iowa, may be more ubiquitously contaminated with pesticides used in nearby crop fields than other types of habitat in agricultural landscapes. (Photo: Lynn Betts, NRCS/SWCS, Flickr)
Part 2: How research about pesticide risks informs our efforts to rewild agricultural landscapes
Recent research from UC Davis found that the abundant local flowering resources provided by field margin wildflower plantings helped to sustain bumble bee queen production even at sites with higher pesticide risk - Olam Orchards_CA_Pollinator Habitat_JKC_XS
Part 1: How research about pesticide risks informs our efforts to rewild agricultural landscapes 
Emily Spindler samples pollinators in New Mexico (Photo: Aimee Code, Xerces Society)
Protecting New Mexico's Very Hungry Caterpillars
Pesticide free homemade garden sign. Photograph by Mike Licht, Flickr.
How Grape Juice and Vacuums Can Help Save the World
Buckwheat smother crop in Iowa (Photo: Sarah Foltz Jordan/ Xerces Society)
Tips for Organic Site Preparation Before You Plant
Mosquito on blade of grass. Photo Ian Jacobs Flickr.com
Mosquito Management at Home
Monarch larvae on showy milkweed, roadside in Idaho.
Xerces Introduces New Searchable Systemic Insecticides Reference
A view inside a large cage made of very fine, white-colored netting. The netting is held up by wooden posts and sags between the supports. Through the center of the photo is a black band, where two sheets of netting are being stitched together. The netting is protecting blueberry bushes, which have green leaves.
Local Pest Challenges Spur Local Solutions in New Hampshire
A small black-and-white striped bee is curled over with its head in a pink flower to reach the nectar
Ask for a Healthier World
A mass of yellow coneflowers fill the front garden of this house. The color contrasts with the blue walls.
This flower head of purple coneflower has been pulled apart to reveal a brown-and-white striped caterpillar than was feeding inside.
How to Identify and Respond to Pests at Home
The front page of the guide Supporting Ecologically Sound Mosquito Management: Protecting Pollinators from Pesticides is shown, with some large text blocks and an image of a field in which different insects, including butterflies and bees, are shown in a landscape.
The front page of the guide Supporting Ecologically Sound Mosquito Management: Protecting Pollinators from Pesticides is shown, with some large text blocks and an image of a field in which different insects, including butterflies and bees, are shown in a landscape.
Start Now To Prevent Mosquito-Borne Disease and Keep Our Pollinators Safe
A fuzzy bee with black and gray stripes gathers pollen in the middle of a purple flower.
Support Pollinator Conservation by Reducing or Eliminating Pesticide Use in Urban Environments
On a sunny day with blue sky, five people stand talking together in the foreground of a beautiful landscape. Behind them is a pear orchard, and beyond is the snow-covered, triangular form of Mt. Hood.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest - January 2020
A monarch clings to the trunk of a tree in a dimly-lit landscape.
Thanksgiving Count Shows Western Monarchs Need Our Help More than Ever
Colorful blooms of blue, red, and yellow blanket the rows between newly-planted saplings.
Starting from Scratch: New Hampshire Farm Dives into Conservation Biological Control
People are crouched, planting native species in a new beetle bank in Iowa.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – August 2019
A plastic clamshell of blueberries bears the Bee Better Certified seal, as well as a label that says "Oregon grown" and the California Giant label.
Arriving in Stores: Bee Better Certified Blueberries
A group of people gather around a patch of blooming pollinator plants.
Reflecting on a Multi-Year Conservation Biological Control Project
A garden in the front of a home showcases a variety of pollinator plants, including orange California poppies.
Pesticide-Free Gardening Tips for Earth Week and Beyond
Red-orange poppies pepper a verdant hillside.
Bee Better Certified Engages the Almond Industry
A field of sunflowers bordering a field.
Bee Better Certified: An Evolving Standard
National Championship winner of Baller Beneficials, the zebra jumpers.
Baller Beneficials! The 2019 Xerces Society Division 1 Beneficial Insect Championship
Red-and-green apples are clustered on a tree branch.
Celebrate Invertebrates During National Apple Month
Bee City USA
Xerces Society + Bee City USA = A Match Made in Pollinator Heaven
A lawn bursting with violets and dandelions provides color for humans to enjoy and pollen for our bee friends.
Bee Friendlier with Your Lawncare
A Xerces Society pollinator habitat sign stands proudly in a lush garden.
Protecting Pollinators One Community at a Time
aerial application of pesticides
Planning Ahead for Mosquito Season
 

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